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Misconceptions truth, lies, and the unexpected on the journey to motherhood

Examines the emotional terrain of impending motherhood as the author documents her own pregnancy and those of other first-time mothers by delving into a wealth of issues and beliefs surrounding pregnancy and motherhood in America today.

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  • "Examines the emotional terrain of impending motherhood as the author documents her own pregnancy as well as other first-time mothers by delving into a wealth of issues and beliefs surrounding pregnancy and motherhood in America today."
  • "Examines the emotional terrain of impending motherhood as the author documents her own pregnancy and those of other first-time mothers by delving into a wealth of issues and beliefs surrounding pregnancy and motherhood in America today."@en
  • ""Every year, millions of women have their lives turned inside out by the experience of pregnancy. A contemporary woman find herself caught in an absurd paradox: while in the grip of one of the most primal, lonely, sensual and in some ways, psychologically debilitating and physically dangerous experience, she is overwhelmed by invasive, trivialising and infantilising cultural messages about what is happening to her - and who really owns the experience. Wolf takes a critical look at the powerful vested interests in the pregnancy 'business' and at the social message coming at women: an amalgam of sentimentality, psychologically dangerous half-truths and conflicting ideologies. She discusses with devastating honesty her own two pregnancies and those of other women, from the physical and emotional effects of having your body taken over, through the elation and the fear, to the choice of delivery method (where mother-friendly childbirth is often in conflict with hospital-friendly practice) and the effects of post-partum depression. Misconceptions is a moving, provocative and unusually candid account of pregnancy and childbirth which for the first time tells the truth about women's conflicting emotions and society's hypocritical attitudes to women's experience."--Publisher description."

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  • "Kritische Darstellung"
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  • "Electronic books"

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  • "Misconceptions truth, lies, and the unexpected on the journey to motherhood"
  • "Misconceptions truth, lies, and the unexpected on the journey to motherhood"@en
  • "Misconceptions : truths, lies and the unexpected on the journey to motherhood"
  • "Misconceptions : truth, lies and the unexpected on the journey to motherhood"
  • "Valse verwachting : waarheid, leugens en het onverwachte op weg naar het moederschap"
  • "Misconceptions : truth, lies, and the unexpected on the journey to motherhood"@en
  • "Misconceptions : truth, lies, and the unexpected on the journey to motherhood"

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